News Steam looks to game trials

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  1. Da Dego

    Da Dego Brett Thomas

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  2. MrBadidea

    MrBadidea What's a Dremel?

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    It was bad enough that they started accepting Paypal payments.

    Now I just know my Paypal account is getting raped :mad:
     
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  3. DXR_13KE

    DXR_13KE BananaModder

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    nice idea..... i hope it gets approved and that it works.
     
    DXR_13KE, 12 Dec 2006
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  4. bahgger

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    Good idea but I worry that some people will abuse it and register new accounts again and again to receive the free trials.
     
    bahgger, 12 Dec 2006
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  5. perplekks45

    perplekks45 LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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    I love the idea! 90s = shareware, today = demos.

    Anyone remember Death Rally?
     
    perplekks45, 12 Dec 2006
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  6. speedfreek

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    I like the idea, then i can get back into dod. In source.
     
    speedfreek, 12 Dec 2006
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  7. plagio

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    They'll put a limit to the invitations for sure.
     
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  8. bllt2bnry

    bllt2bnry What's a Dremel?

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    It can't be a bad idea!
     
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  9. Cthippo

    Cthippo Can't mod my way out of a paper bag

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    Yeah, seems like a good idea. THey'll probably only do it for multi-plyer games though because there aren't many single-player ones yu can't beat in 10 days.
     
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  10. r0z|3o0n

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    It concerns me that if this is released then cheaters will abuse the crap out of it. To them it could be a source of unlimited Steam Accounts.... 10 days is a long time when you're speedhacking, and when you get banned, you just use the banned account to invite as many new accounts as steam will let you. Or people will use their main legit account to invite the maximum number of trial accounts to be used for cheating.
     
    r0z|3o0n, 13 Dec 2006
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  11. nphekted

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    What if they only let you invite accounts that have already bought a reasonable number of games though? It wouldn't be worth abusing if that were the case.
     
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  12. Bladestorm

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    Ace game, used to play it with my brother, he'd drive, I'd shoot, we were both happy :D
     
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  13. speedfreek

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    I figure its probably going to work something like that, or an accound has to be active for so long. I could see people making up bogus accounts and playing with 1337 h4x.
     
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